It's the Brian Lara's Show on WNYC.

Good morning again everyone.

With us now, Bruce Ratner with his new book, Early Detection,

Catching Cancer, when it's curable.

Bruce Ratner is a member of the Board of Memorial Sloane Kettering Cancer Center and the

Wild Cornell Medical Center here in New York, and he lost his brother, the human rights attorney

Michael Ratner, to cancer in 2016.

Michael was a guest on this show multiple times as president of the Center for Constitutional

Rights in memory of Michael Bruce created the Michael Ratner Center for Early Detention of Cancer.

You may know the name Bruce Ratner more for being the developer of Berkeley Center

and the Atlantic Yards Project in Brooklyn, former owner of the Nets in conjunction

with that, also the developer of Brooklyn's Metro Tech Center and the New York Times

Building in Manhattan, among other things.

And he is a former New York City Consumer Affairs

Commissioner yes it's the same Bruce Ratner and we'll talk some about New York

City real estate and housing issues too but mostly about the book in which Ratner and science writer Adam Bonislowski

explore the science and history of early cancer testing and proposed major initiatives

for cancer prevention, including more equal access for people

underserved by the health care system who, not surprisingly, have higher rates of cancer

mortality as opposed to cancer survival.

And there's a relevant news story right now.

The Federal Government's Preventive Services Task Force,

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